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Another subcommittee votes in favor of the program.

Another subcommittee votes in favor of the program.

Another subcommittee votes in favor of the program.

Republican lawmakers' "universal school choice" bill cleared its first committee in the Florida House Thursday.

Republican lawmakers announced a plan for "universal school choice." If approved, their bill would make all students eligible to receive state funds for private tuition.

Desantis vetoed it. what message does this send to black folks in your state from your own governor? >> well, its the same consistent message hes shown since he filed hb-1, restricting and telling black folk how they can protest. since reconstruction, we only have had 11 congressional members in the state of florida. now we only have five. and now, these new happens, we will only have three black seats. the governor call it race neutral. we call it racist tactics. the governor knows what hes doi...

Journalist and founder of "north side collision of jacksonville" joins me now. thanks for being here. tell us what happened as you came into that space to try to attend the press conference, then you were hauled off in handcuffs and then what happened? give us the story of what occurred. >> the bottom line is this governor does what he does best. he sets down anybody against him speaking to him from a different school of thought. he tries to shut people down. hes done the same thing with that hb...

Biden won by a larger margin in arizona than had originally been reported. right? and the reason i say that is that the president went to a rally and said the exact opposite, right? there are people who will never actually look at what the headline was from that -- that audit that was not an audit and they will just listen to what the president said. is there anything at this point that can be done to combat this message that trump is so successfully sending? >> he is an obviously very successfu...

Because they dont have access to money and to funds and to opportunity. im running for congress because of that oppression in those issues. the fact of the matter is, jonathan, we deserve better. im running to redefine what it means to be a politician. we shouldnt feel lucky to have people on our side. every person across the country deserves a representative and makes them smile. someone that reminds them that theyre from the same community and theyre fighting with them for a better life and fo...

His comments have been correct. we have to ensure that these voting bills, the john lewis voting rights act, hb-1, have to pass. and ive been saying that we need to do whatever is necessary to move these bills forward and my hope is that in the senate folks like joe manchin, folks like kyrsten sinema who are the real barriers to us moving on this understand the necessity of this for voting rights all around the country, but also for their re-election. i dont understand how folks who will be on t...